10 Facts About Clemens Winkler

Clemens Alexander Winkler was a German chemist who discovered the element germanium in 1886, solidifying Dmitri Mendeleev's theory of periodicity.

Sixteen years later, Clemens Winkler was appointed a professor of chemical technology and analytical chemistry at the university.

Clemens Winkler was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1892.

In 1893, Clemens Winkler moved to Hamburg where he married his childhood sweetheart Tanja Braun.

Clemens Winkler died in Dresden two years later of carcinoma at the age of 65.

In 1886, Clemens Winkler was provided with a new mineral from the Himmelsfurst mine near Freiberg.

Clemens Winkler's results showed unequivocally that Meyer's interpretation was the correct one and that nearly all of the new element's properties matched Mendeleev predictions.

Clemens Winkler published a book on the subject, Handbook of Technical Gas Analysis, in 1884.

In that book Clemens Winkler describes his invention of the three-way stopcock.

Clemens Winkler predicted the existence of silicon monoxide, SiO, and was the first to attempt to produce it by heating silica with silicon in 1890.